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Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms

The Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms Group, whose head is Dr. Rafael Cantón and which is made up of nine other principal investigators as well as numerous pre- and post-doctoral researchers, technicians and other healthcare personnel, has participated in the last 5 years in 17 national and international research projects and in 15 contracts with pharmaceutical companies or companies dedicated to in vitro diagnostics. During this period of time this work has resulted in more than 190 publications in national and international journals with a high impact index and more than 11 doctoral theses. Likewise, more than 400 communications have been presented at numerous national and international congresses. And all this always seeking the highest excellence in the fields of population biology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory infection, microbiota, metagenomics and HIV.

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  • Munoz-Gallego I, Viedma E, Esteban J, Mancheno-Losa M, Garcia-Canete J, Blanco-Garcia A, Rico A, Garcia-Perea A, Ruiz Garbajosa P, Escudero-Sanchez R, Sanchez Somolinos M, Marin Arriaza M, Romanyk J, Barbero JM, Arribi Vilela A, Gonzalez Romo F, Perez-Jorge C, M Arana D, Monereo A, Domingo D, Cordero J, Sanchez Romero MI, Garcia Viejo MA, Lora-Tamayo J, Chaves F, Grupo de Infeccion Osteoarticular de la Comunidad de Madrid.

    Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Joint Infections: Insight on the Pathogenesis and Prognosis of a Multicenter Prospective Cohort

    Open forum infectious diseases . 7(9): . Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa344]

  • Lopez, Y., Tato, M., Gargallo-Viola, D., Canton, R., Vila, J., Zsolt, I.

    Comparative activity of ozenoxacin and other quinolones in Staphylococcus aureus strains overexpressing the efflux pump-encoding genes mepA and norA

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS . 56(3): 106082-106082. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106082]

  • Colmenarejo, Cristina, Hernandez-Garcia, Marta, Muñoz-Rodríguez JR, Huertas, Natalia, Navarro FJ, Mateo AB, Pellejero EM, Illescas, Soledad, Vidal MD, Del Campo, Rosa.

    Prevalence and risks factors associated with ESBL-producing faecal carriage in a single long-term-care facility in Spain: emergence of CTX-M-24-and CTX-M-27-producing Escherichia coli ST131-H30R

    The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy . 75(9): 2480-2484. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkaa219]

  • Kostyanev, Tomislav, Nguyen, M. N., Markovska, R., Stankova, P., Xavier, B. B., Lammens, C., Marteva-Proevska, Y., Velinov, T., Canton, R., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumar, S..

    Emergence of ST654 Pseudomonas aeruginosa co-harbouring bla(NDM-1) and bla(GES-5) in novel class I integron In 1884 from Bulgaria

    JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE . 22: 672-673. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1016/j.jgar.2020.06.008]

  • Cambau, E., Gutmann, L., Mainardi, J. -L., Goldstein, F., Hoi AB, Collatz, E., Poljak, M., Kahlmeter, G., Phillips, I., Baquero, F..

    Jacques F. Acar (1931-2020) Obituary

    Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . 26(9): 1261-1263. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.06.001]

  • Beltran-Corbellini, A., Chico-Garcia, J. L., Martinez-Poles, J., Rodriguez-Jorge, F., Natera-Villalba, E., Gomez-Corral, J., Gomez-Lopez, A., Monreal, E., Parra-Diaz, P., Cortes-Cuevas, J. L., Galan, J. C., Fragola-Arnau, C., Porta-Etessam, J., Masjuan, J., Alonso-Canovas, A..

    Acute-onset smell and taste disorders in the context of COVID-19: a pilot multicentre polymerase chain reaction based case-control study

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY . 27(9): 1738-1741. Number of citations: 262

    [doi:10.1111/ene.14273]

  • Hernando-Amado, Sara, Coque, Teresa M., Baquero, Fernando, Martinez, Jose L..

    Antibiotic Resistance: Moving From Individual Health Norms to Social Norms in One Health and Global Health

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 11: 1914-1914. Number of citations: 48

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01914]

  • Alreshidi, Mousa M., Veettil, Vajid N., Noumi, Emira, Campo RD, Snoussi, Mejdi.

    Description of microbial diversity associated with ticks Hyalomma dromedarii (Acari: Ixodidae) isolated from camels in Hail region (Saudi Arabia) using massive sequencing of 16S rDNA

    Bioinformation . 16(8): 602-610. Number of citations: 5

    [doi:10.6026/97320630016602]

  • Mondejar-Lopez P, Quintana-Gallego E, Giron-Moreno RM, Cortell-Aznar I, Ruiz de Valbuena-Maiz M, Diab-Caceres L, Prados-Sanchez C, Alvarez-Fernandez A, Garcia-Marcos PW, Peñalver-Mellado C, Pastor-Vivero MD, Olveira C, Lopez-Neyra A, Castillo-Corullon S, Palma-Milla S, Perez-Ruiz E, Sole-Jover A, Barrio MI, Sanchez-Solis M, Asensio de la Cruz Ó, CF-COVID19-Spain Registry Group.

    Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with cystic fibrosis in Spain: Incidence and results of the national CF-COVID19-Spain survey

    RESPIRATORY MEDICINE . 170: 106062-106062. Number of citations: 27

    [doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106062]

  • Braun, Patrick, Glass, Allison, Maree, Leana, Krugel, Maria, Pacenti, Monia, Onelia, Francesco, Gunson, Rory, Goldstein, Emily, Martinez-Garcia, Laura, Galan, Juan-Carlos, Vilas, Alba, D'costa, Jodie, Sameer, Rizmina, Ehret, Robert, Knechten, Heribert, Naeth, Gudrun, Bouvier-Alias, Magali, Marlowe, Natalia, Palm, Michael J., Joseph, Ajith M., Dhein, Jens, Reinhardt, Birgit, Pfeifer, Karin, Lucic, Danijela, Obermeier, Martin.

    Multicenter clinical comparative evaluation of Alinity m HIV-1 assay performance

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 129: 104530-104530. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104530]

  • Bonanzinga, Sara, Onelia, Francesco, Jackson, Kathy, Glass, Allison, Maree, Leana, Krugel, Mari, Pacenti, Monia, Gunson, Rory, Goldstein, Emily, García LM, Galan, Juan-Carlos, Vilas, Alba, Ehret, Robert, Knechten, Heribert, Naeth, Gudrun, Braun, Patrick, Obermeier, Martin, Marlowe, Natalia, Palm, Michael J., Pfeifer, Karin, Joseph, Ajith M., Dhein, Jens, Reinhardt, Birgit, Lucic, Danijela, Chevaliez, Stephane.

    Multicenter clinical evaluation of alinity m HBV assay performance

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 129: 104514-104514. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104514]

  • Chevaliez, Stephane, Onelia, Francesco, Pacenti, Monia, Goldstein, Emily, Galan, Juan-Carlos, Martinez-Garcia, Laura, Vilas, Alba, Glass, Allison, Maree, Leana, Krugel, Maria, Ehret, Robert, Knechten, Heribert, Braun, Patrick, Naeth, Gudrun, Bonanzinga, Sara, Jackson, Kathy, Abravaya, Klara, Dhein, Jens, Huang, Shihai, Joseph, Ajith M., Lucic, Danijela, Marlowe, Natalia, Palm, Michael J., Pfeifer, Karin, Toolsie, Dan, Reinhardt, Birgit, Obermeier, Martin, Gunson, Rory.

    Multicenter clinical evaluation of alinity m HCV assay performance

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 129: 104531-104531. Number of citations: 10

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104531]

  • Frentrup, Martinique, Zhou, Zhemin, Steglich, Matthias, Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P., Göker M, Riedel, Thomas, Bunk, Boyke, Spröer C, Overmann, Jorg, Blaschitz, Marion, Indra, Alexander, von Müller L, Kohl, Thomas A., Niemann, Stefan, Seyboldt, Christian, Klawonn, Frank, Kumar, Nitin, Lawley, Trevor D., Garcia-Fernandez, Sergio, Canton, Rafael, Del Campo, Rosa, Zimmermann, Ortrud, Gross, Uwe, Achtman, Mark, Nübel U.

    A publicly accessible database for Clostridioides difficile genome sequences supports tracing of transmission chains and epidemics

    Microbial genomics . 6(8): . Number of citations: 17

    [doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000410]

  • Campos, Marcelino, San Millan, Alvaro, Sempere, Jose M., Lanza, Val F., Coque, Teresa M., Llorens, Carlos, Baquero, Fernando.

    Simulating the Influence of Conjugative-Plasmid Kinetic Values on the Multilevel Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance in a Membrane Computing Model

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 64(8): . Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.00593-20]

  • Turnidge, J., Kahlmeter, G., Canton, R., MacGowan, A., Giske, C. G., European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

    Daptomycin in the treatment of enterococcal bloodstream infections and endocarditis: a EUCAST position paper

    Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . 26(8): 1039-1043. Number of citations: 26

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.027]

  • Martinez-Sanz, Javier, Muriel, Alfonso, Vivancos-Gallego MJ, Galán JC, Romero, Beatriz, Rodríguez-Sagrado MÁ, Uranga, Almudena, Perez-Elias, Pilar, Barea, Rafael, Chamorro-Escobar, Clotilde, Herrero-Delgado, Margarita, Pérez-Elías MJ.

    Prevalence of HCV infection in a health area of Madrid (Spain): The first step towards microelimination

    ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA . 38(7): 317-322. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.eimc.2019.10.014]

  • Fortun, J., Buitrago, M. J., Gioia, F., Gómez-Gª de la Pedrosa E, Alvarez, M. E., Martin-Davila, P., Pintado, V, Cobeta, P., Martinez-Castro, N., Soriano, C., Moreno, I, Corral, S., Muñoz P, Moreno-Jimenez, G., Cuenca-Estrella, M., Moreno-Guillen, S..

    Roles of the multiplex real-time PCR assay and beta-D-glucan in a high-risk population for intra-abdominal candidiasis (IAC)

    Medical mycology . 58(6): 789-796. Number of citations: 6

    [doi:10.1093/mmy/myz123]

  • Ortiz-López FJ, Carretero-Molina, Daniel, Sanchez-Hidalgo, Marina, Martin, Jesus, Gonzalez, Ignacio, Roman-Hurtado, Fernando, de la Cruz, Mercedes, Garcia-Fernandez, Sergio, Reyes, Fernando, Deisinger JP, Müller A, Schneider, Tanja, Genilloud, Olga.

    Cacaoidin, First Member of the New Lanthidin RiPP Family

    ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION . 59(31): 12654-12658. Number of citations: 50

    [doi:10.1002/anie.202005187]